Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam’s U22 football team secured a cash bonus after making history by crushing Indonesia 3-0 in the final of the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEAGames 30) in Manila, the Philippines on December 10.
Shortly afterthe win, the players and Coach Park Hang-seo were awarded 1 billion VND (43,300 USD) from theMinistry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Variouscorporations – F.I.T Group, Vietcombank, Golf Long Thanh, Hung ThinhCorporation, and CT Group – have promised to give 5 billion VND (216,000 USD)in total to the team for claiming Vietnam’s first-ever men’s football trophy at the region’s biggestsporting event.
Bamboo Airways has also offered a year’s unlimitedpass for both the men’s and women’s football teams.
The men’s U22team had already received 500million VND from dairy producer Vinamilk and 1 billion VND from F.I.T Group for reaching the final.
The historic SEAGames gold has made dreams of millions of Vietnamese football fans come true, as Vietnam finished second in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.
The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has dispatcheda 787-10 Dreamliner to fly the Vietnamese sporting delegation to SEA Games30 back home on December 11./.